2020-08-10 — Easing Up

Hi everyone 😊.

Cold showers rock. I’m finding so many benefits already.

#1. I’m happier. It just makes me smile and laugh and releases endorphins. Makes me feel good. 😁

#2. Gives me an opportunity to practice doing hard things. (that first blast of cold water is… it literally takes your breath away, as your body tries to cope with the shock to the system. You start breathing super quickly. Mind over cold. Makes me smile just writing about it).

#3. My skin feels different. Better. Tighter?

My brain isn’t working right now, so I’m sure there are more, but they ain’t comin’ out of the my mushy gray matter.

So… guess what?!?! Up at 6, baby. Prayed, meditated, cold showered. I was a little late getting out the door to get to the DMV early, but… it didn’t matter. There 23 minutes before the place opened, and what did I find? The line wrapped around three sides of the building.

Holy. Crap.

I asked a guy near the front of the line when he’d arrived… He got there at 6:10. And he wasn’t even first. He was like… 3rd maybe?

So… needless to say, I decided not to stay and wait.

The good, though? I was in the middle of a lovely conversation with one of my favorite people ever, so I didn’t care a lick about the line or not getting done what I’d wanted to get done and finally thought I was going to get done. I simply enjoyed the conversation with her, laughed at the predicament, and went on my way to the next order of business for the day.

Ill have to figure out the DMV stuff another day still though… there at 6 a.m., I guess? Ugh. Can’t say I’m looking forward to that that. It’s insane. They’ve got to figure out a way to not have things be so crazy. It’s awful. They’ve gotta come up with a better way. It’s 2020. Let me submit my stuff online. I’m late on my registration for… all my cars. And one isn’t even titled yet. 🙃

Oh well…

Didn’t do much today. Ran errands in the morning. Made sure my tech was taken care of. It was super hot today, so I only had him do 4 jobs. I’ve been easing up a good bit. Not pushing myself so hard. That’s been good.

I grocery shopped–trying to do a better job of taking care of my body.

Then I spent about 20 years mowing the lawn. It was super long, so I had to go over a good bit of it twice in order to get the grass chopped up fine enough it wouldn’t lay on top and kill the other grass.

Lawnmower needs help. Doesn’t want to run right. Needs an oil change. I probably need to adjust the valves… change the air filter, fuel filter, who knows. We’ll see. Tune up.

I’m tired. I had a beautiful morning, and a good afternoon, but the evening… I’ve let some cloud creep in, and now I’m not doing so well.

I’ll be fine. Just gonna finish up here, brush my teeth, and go to bed.

Sleep 😊 So important for me, personally.

#1. I’m grateful that the lawnmower at least worked enough to mow the lawn.

#2. I’m grateful to live in a place with so many critters around. Turtle by the garden this morning as I was driving away, hummingbirds, rabbits, insects of all kinds, birds all over, big black snake in the Giant Hibiscus bush… lizards, salamanders… frogs…

Loaded.

#3. I’m grateful to have had time today to shop for food. Part of the reason I haven’t eaten enough is that I don’t have food I want to eat. I sort of forget that other food exists and eat the same things over and over… get tired of them… don’t want to eat, etc.

#4. Grateful that my most recent poison ivy adventure so far has only yielded a little bit of rash on the back side of my left arm. And I only just barely noticed it last night, and it doesn’t itch at all, so… cross your fingers, I appear to have escaped unscathed this time. Glad I went home and showered and cleaned up after realizing the exposure.

#5. I’m grateful that my new portable air pump at least lasted long enough to pump up my truck tire so I could move the truck.

To be better…

#1. I let thinking about days gone past and how much they’ve affected my present hit me hard, and I’m melancholic right now… thinking about things there’s nothing I can do about and can’t change. Not very fruitful. I’d like to be better at kicking that stuff to the curb.

#2. Still struggling with the bed time. It’s just about midnight. I keep feeling like I’m on target, and then suddenly, I’m way late. Go figure. It’s weird.

It’s time for bed, folks. Loves and hugs.

Lift the World.

~ stephen